Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska & Yukon Photographic
Directory, 1858-1950 - M - Volume 1 (1858-1900)
© 1999-2007 By
David Mattison
Updated: 2006.12.31.
NAME: McArthur, J.J.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Alaska-Canada Boundary.
WORK INTERVAL: 1894.
STATUS: Phototopographer.
SUMMARY: He
worked on the International Boundary Commission using photography to compiled
landscape data that would subsequently be turned into maps. McArthur was one of
the first phototopographers employed by the Dominion Lands Branch along the BC
Railway Belt beginning around 1886. According to photohistorian Andrew J.
Birrell, it was McArthur who trained six other phototopographers for the
Alaska-Canada boundary survey work. Using this method, the Canadian team was
able to complete their survey in two years. American surveyors thereafter
quickly adopted the Canadian system.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: OOA
(negatives/prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Birrell (1981-82)
Hadley (1987).
NAME:
McBeth, Robert Andrew.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Rossland.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 23 E. Columbia
Ave./1897.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS:
Unknown.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He may be the McBeth of
Itter Bros. & McBeth,
photographers he is the only McBeth listed in Rossland.
COLLECTIONS: see
Itter Bros. & McBeth.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Itter Bros.
& McBeth.
REFERENCES: HEN97.
NAME: McCleery, Fitzgerald.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR: Vancouver?/1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS:
Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He won a prize for photography at a Richmond
fair.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
NAME: McClinton, A.L.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
S.S. Rosalie.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Seattle?, WA.
WHEN ACTIVE:
1898-1899.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: One of four sons of
Judge J.G. McClinton, Port Townsend, Washington, he worked for the customs
service there where he took up photography. Between 1898-1899 he was purser on
S.S. Rosalie (owned by the Alaska Steamship Co., 1897-1900) and
may have taken views at Juneau, Dyea and Skagway.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Jones (1976).
NAME: McClure, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver San Francisco,
CA.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1889 08.
STATUS:
Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He or his partner Crowell of
Crowell & McClure visited
Vancouver and were reported to be photographing buildings and streets for a
publication about the Pacific Northwest coast of the U.S. and Canada.
COLLECTIONS: see Crowell &
McClure.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Crowell & McClure.
REFERENCES: see Crowell &
McClure.
NAME: McConnell,
Richard George
LIFE DATES: 1857-1942
BIRTHPLACE: Chatman, PQ.
PLACE OF DEATH:
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A younger
contemporary of Dr. G.M. Dawson, McConnell studied at McGill University in
Montreal. McConnell's exploration of the Yukon for the Geological Survey of
Canada beginning in 1887 over a ten-year period produced the first accurate
geological maps of the Klondike gold fields. An amateur photographer, it is not
known if he produced photographs of his Yukon travels.
Appointed Deputy
Minister of Mines in 1914, he retired in 1920. McConnell River, McConnell Peak
and McConnell Lake, YT, are all named in honor of his accomplishments.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
REFERENCES:
Hall (1967).
NAME: McCullagh, James Benjamin.
LIFE
DATES: 1854 __ __-1921 05 01.
BIRTHPLACE: County Down, Ireland.
PLACE
OF DEATH: Prince Rupert.
WHERE ACTIVE: Aiyansh.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: by 1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
He was the missionary at Aiyansh and arrived there in 1883 with his first wife.
In his Caledonia Interchange McCullagh published an account of the
opening of the Kincolith Church " by a Lady Correspondent" who noted that the
missionary stopped the procession on its way to the church " while Mr. McCullagh
took one or two photographs" (September 30, 1900).
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Caledonia Interchange, 1900 10 31/8
McCullagh, various writings Moeran (1923?) Colonist, 1976 09 26/2
& 7.
NAME: McDermaid, Albert.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New
Westminster.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Agnes St. E., near Mary St./1890.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Dempsey has an " A. E. McDairmid" passing through Minnedosa, Man., in September
1887 by 1891 this McDairmid had a studio in Calgary over Thompson's bookstore
he remained in Calgary until 1895.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN90 Dempsey (1978) Calgary Tribune, 1891 10 07.
NAME: Macdonald, Emma.
VARIANT: Maynard, Emma.
LIFE DATES: 1859 or 1860 __ __-1893 07 21.
BIRTHPLACE: Bowmanville, Ont.
PLACE OF DEATH: Seattle, Wash.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Victoria.
WORK INTERVAL: 1880?-1881?.
STATUS: Commercial
(assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A daughter of Hannah and Richard Maynard, she
was married to James F. Macdonald (1852-1912) at the time of the 1881 census. Her age is
given as 21, occupation, photographer, no doubt an assistant to her mother or
father. She and her husband, from whom she filed for divorce in June
1892, had three children: Harry Hatherly Macdonald and Maynard Macdonald, and a third child,
Albert James Macdonald, living
with Richard and Hannah Maynard at the time Emma died. Her portrait appears in
a few of her mother's bizarre multiple exposure tableaux.
REFERENCES: 1881
Dominion Census (OOA microfilm reel C-13285) Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
1893 07 22/8 and 1893 07 23/8 Mattison (1980 10):14-19
Wilks (1980) BVIPA Visual
Records Photographer File M. Cirelli to Mattison, 1992 08 06 (death
date and obituaries).
NAME:
McDougall, James.
LIFE DATES: 1843 __ __-1915 06 28.
BIRTHPLACE: Scotland.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Masset.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: circa 1890.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A Hudson's Bay Company agent, he took one or two
photos of Masset.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPM MWHBC.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVIPA E/E/M149 (Reminiscences) BVIPA Death Registration no.
1915-09-030763 (reel B13083) Blackman (1981):62.
NAME: McGregor, J.H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Photographs were
published in the BC Mining Record, October 1899.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BC Mining Record (Oct. 1899):__.
NAME: McJury, J.J.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Dyea, AK,
via Sheep Camp to Chilkoot Pass?.
WORK INTERVAL: 1898.
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: YWA (prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Yukon Archives no. 1669.
NAME:
McKay, H.D.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Cordova St. E.
(Graveley-Spinks Building)/1898-1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He was
established by September 1898 in J.M.
White's old studio which had been designed by Vancouver architect R. Mackay
Fripp for White's portrait studio business. Alphonse Savard occupied the studio after
McKay.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL99
Province Souvenir Edition (1898), BVAA Pamphlet 1898-8, p. 61 (halftone
of Graveley-Spinks Block) occupied by H.D. McKay.
NAME: McLaren, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 2 Powell St./1890.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1890.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This person worked
for the Stanley Bros.
REFERENCES: HEN90.
NAME: McLean, James
B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN
ACTIVE: Cumberland/1898 Union/1899.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1898-1899.
STATUS: Amateur?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: McLean was listed
as an agent for the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway in 1898. A BVIPA photo has
the family name McLean on the caption. Halftone illustrations reproduced from
his photographs appear in the May 24, 1899 issue of the Cumberland
News.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see above.
REFERENCES: BVIPA photo no. HP055325 HEN98 Cumberland News, 1899 05
24/last page (" ...J.B. McLean, photographer, Union, B.C." ).
NAME: McMichael, Alfred G.
LIFE DATES:
1858? __ __-____ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACCTIVE: Dyea, AK/1898-1899? Yukon?/1901?.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Detroit,
MI/1898 Alaska/1898 Yukon/1898?-1901.
WHEN ACTIVE: 1898-1901?.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The CD-ROM Klondike Gold
states this 40-year old photographer reached Dyea, Alaska, in April 1898 from
Detroit, Michigan. He stayed at the Hotel Ballard, a description of which can
be found on the CD-ROM.
The Pan for Gold Database shows A.G. McMichael
entering the Yukon Territory via the Lake Bennett checkpoint on boat 2328 on
June 1, 1898. He is also listed as entering the Yukon at the Chilkoot Pass
checkpoint on March 20, 1899. The Pan for Gold Database record on McMichael in
the 1901 Canadian Census lists his date of origin in the Yukon as March 20,
1899.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
REFERENCES:
Klondike Gold
(1996) Pan for Gold
Database.
NAME: Macmunn, Charles.
LIFE DATES: 1840?-1903 05 08.
BIRTHPLACE: Manchester?, England,
UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort St., above Blanshard St./1887 107 John St.?/1890.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 110 John St./1889 107 John St./1890 106 Oswego
St./1891 94 Oswego St./1892-1903.
WORK INTERVAL: 1883-1903.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Listed as " photographer (C.P.R.)" in the
1887 directory, Macmunn's work was among the best produced by several
commercial photographers who travelled along the line. The T. N. Hibben &
Co. bookstore sold his work as early as 1883 which it described as " Macmunn's
Views of Canadian Pacific Railway, Victoria and Surroundings." His name has
been variously spelled as " McMunn," " MacMunn," and " McMann." The BVIPA album is
an exquisite but incomplete example of his work.
Charles was survived by
his wife Margaret, a dressmaker, when he died at the age of 63.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA QMMMCM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " Charles Macmunn's Views of
the Canadian Pacific Railway..." on verso of print.
REFERENCES: MAL87
WIL89 HEN90 HEN91 WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 HEN98 HEN99 WIL99
HEN00 HEN01 HEN02 HEN03 HEVI08 Hibben (1883) Colonist, 1886 08
31/3 Scientific American Supplement, 1887 11 05:9876-7 (6 photos of
" Views on the Canadian Pacific Railway" ) Smith (1891-2) (examples of photos)
Colonist, 1903 05 09/5 (obit.)
Mattison (1997b).
NAME: McMunn, T.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1899.
STATUS:
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Photographs were published in the BC Mining Record
in February 1899.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
BC Mining Record(Feb. 1899):25-26.
NAME: Maguffin, John.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 107 John St.?/1890.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 107 John St./1890.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
He lived at the same address as C. Macmunn, so it is
likely Maguffin worked for Macmunn.
REFERENCES: Voters List, 1890.
NAME: Malcolm, Kenneth.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 160 Cordova St./1892 158-162 Cordova St./1893.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 35 Hastings St. E./1892 317 Keefer St./1893.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1892-1893.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: He worked for the Bailey
Bros.
REFERENCES: WIL92 WIL93.
NAME: Maris, Omer.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Dyea, AK, via Chilkoot Pass
to Yukon River to St. Michael, AK.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896 06 15-07 __.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: According to a newspaper review of his journey,
this young author of life in North Carolina " carried a large camera and took
hundreds of pictures" on his month-long adventure. He recounted his experiences
in Sketches from Alaska (1897).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Tacoma Sunday Ledger, 1896 08 16/6
(" Down from Alaska" ) Maris
(1897).
NAME:
Mathers, Charles Wesley.
LIFE DATES: 1868 01 09-1950 04 12.
BIRTHPLACE: Lucknow, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: San Gabriel, CA.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Edmonton, AB Vancouver, BC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1892 03 12-1921.
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY: C.W. Mathers
began his photographic career with the Edmonton branch studio of the Calgary
photographic partnership of Boorne & May. According to Alberta
photohistorian Brock Silversides, Mathers was Edmonton's only photographer for
several years, including the first two years of the Klondike Gold Rush. Mathers
never ventured beyond Athabasca Landing, about 100 miles north of Edmonton,
during those two crucial years. He photographed many Klondikers, including the
first woman to leave Edmonton for the Yukon, Mrs. G.E. (Nellie) Garner of
Fresno, California (the J.S. Mack or Fresno Party). It was her portrait taken
in the Mathers studio that helped James Michener shape his novel of the gold
rush Journey (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988). In 1901, three
years after photographing stampeders departing by boat from Athabasca Landing,
Mathers made his own epic journey of discovery along the same rivers followed
by some of the Edmonton goldseekers. In the company of a Hudson's Bay Company
trader he reached Fort MacPherson on the Peel River, not far as the crow flies
from Dawson, and was able to take the first professional photographs of Inuit
in the region.
Mathers sold his business in 1904 to Ernest Brown and moved
to Vancouver, BC, where he practiced photography sporadically while attempting
to collect from Brown on the payment for his business. In 1920 Mathers moved to
Taft, California, where he worked briefly as a photographer and then retired to
Gardena.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Provincial Archives of Alberta (negatives).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface usually captioned and signed " Photo by
Mathers Edmonton" or " Mathers" or " Photo by C.W. Mathers, Edmonton Alta" or
" Mathers Vancouver B.C." Ernest Brown retitled and claimed credit for many of
Mathers' photographs after Mathers left Edmonton for Vancouver. Sometimes,
however, Brown left Mathers' name on the negative.
See also
Camera Workers, 1901-1950.
REFERENCES: Provincial Archives
of Alberta (1989) Silversides (1990).
NAME: Maynard, Albert Hatherly.
LIFE
DATES: 1857 06 06-1934 12 21.
BIRTHPLACE: Bowmanville, ON.
PLACE OF
DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 41
Pandora Ave./1899 41 ½ Pandora Ave./1900.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 100
John St./1899-1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1900+.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A son of Richard and
Hannah Maynard, he was, like his father, a shoemaker,
and took over both his father's photographic and shoe store. He disposed
of all of his parents negatives and the studio register at various dates to
the BC Archives.
COLLECTIONS:
BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL99 HEN00 Voters List,
1899 Howay & Scholefield (1914):v. 4 901 see Maynard, Richard BVIPA Visual Records Photographers
File.
Maynard, Emma see Macdonald, Emma.
NAME: Maynard, Hannah Hatherly.
VARIANT:
Maynard, Mrs. Richard.
LIFE DATES: 1834 01 17-1918 05 15.
BIRTHPLACE:
Bude, Cornwall, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Johnson St., corner of Douglas St./1862?-1874
Douglas St., corner of Johnson St./1874-1892 41 Pandora Ave./1892-1900+.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: see Richard Maynard.
WORK INTERVAL: 1862?-1912.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Married in 1852 to
Richard Maynard, she emigrated to the Colony of
Vancouver Island with her family in 1862. Although no direct evidence has been
located, it is believed she opened Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Gallery the
same year. Primarily a portrait photographer, she boasted upon her retirement
in 1912 of having photographed just about everyone who passed through Victoria.
She and Richard made a few trips together (dates and destinations of these
trips together are 1875 [San Francisco], 1879 [Vancouver Island pleasure
cruise], 1887 and/or 1889 [Banff], 1888 [Queen Charlotte Islands]). Both
practiced landscape photography it is not always clear, though their work was
marketed under separate imprints, exactly who took which photographs. Hannah
also experimented with novelty techniques such as photosculpture (persons made
to resemble statues), multiple exposure tricks, and composite imagery. Her
probate, executed by her son Albert, says she
disposed of her equipment about 1910 to a Chinese photographer named Peter on
Government St. Albert donated her studio register to the BC Archives
in 1933 (accession 742), and also disposed of all negatives to the BC Archives
by donation or sale at various dates. About the only other personal or business
record by Hannah preserved by the BC Archives is an account of the 1879 trip
around Vancouver Island.
Victoria playwright Janet Munsil's play Be Still
about Hannah Maynard premiered at Richmond's Gateway Theatre on March 1, 2001
and opened at Victoria's Belfry Theatre on March 14, 2001. For an assessment of Hannah Maynard's role in the development of the arts within Victoria by women, see the exhibit catalogue edited by Karen A. Finlay, " A Woman's Place" (University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery (2004).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BVIPA (glass negatives, prints, albums).
CAMERA WORKERS IMAGE GALLERY-D
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
" Mrs. R. Maynard Photographic Artiste Johnson Street, Near Douglas, Victoria,
V.I. B.C." on verso of carte-de-visite (2 styles). " Mrs. R. Maynard,
Photographic Artiste, Douglass [sic] St., Victoria, V.I., B.C." on verso of
carte-de-visite (2 styles). " From Mrs. R. Maynard's Photographic Studio, cor.
Douglas & Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount (various
styles). " Mrs. R. Maynard, Photographer, 41 ½ Pandora Avenue, Near
Douglas Street Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. The bottom front of the
print mount may also be marked " Mrs. R. Maynard, Victoria, B.C." or " Mrs. R.
Maynard, Artiste."
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): see also Maynard, Richard Probate file (BVIPA GR-1304, file 105/18) BVIPA MS-1077
(Newcombe Collection) directories (she and Richard are first listed in MAL68)
newspapers tax assessments photographs all at BVIPA
Mattison (1980 10)
Wilks (1980) Munsil play
premiere (http://www.gatewaytheatre.com http://www.belfry.bc.ca
Times-Colonist, 2001.01.14/B6 [review]) Mattison (2003) University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery (2004) Neering (2006).
NAME: Maynard, Richard. 
LIFE DATES: 1832 02
22-1907 01 10.
BIRTHPLACE: Stratton, Cornwall, UK.
PLACE OF DEATH:
Victoria.
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Fort
St./1864-1874 Douglas St., corner of Johnson St./1874-1892 Pandora
Ave./1892-1900+.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: usually same as business address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1864-1893.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Married in 1852 to Hannah Hatherly, he gave up
bootmaking in Bowmanville to mine gold in the Fraser River in 1858-59.
Returning to Canada (Ontario) for his family, they sailed via San Francisco on
the Sierra Nevada, the same boat which brought
F.G. Claudet back to Victoria in
March 1862. Richard left his family again that June for the Stikine Territory
and the gold fields there. He is reputed to have made a fortune and came back
to Victoria where he settled down as a boot and shoe maker and photographer.
The earliest known reference to his photography is a panorama he made of
Victoria harbour in May 1864. His first trip outside Victoria occurred in 1868
when he took his son Albert to Barkerville. He
accompanied Indian Affairs commissioner Dr. I.W. Powell in 1873 on an
inspection tour along the east coast of Vancouver Island and the northwest
coast of the mainland. The next year found Maynard on another trip with Powell,
this time around Vancouver Island. Fog and rain prevented Richard from taking
many photographs. Another important trip was made with Captain Newton H.
Chittenden to the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1884. He and Hannah returned to
the Queen Charlottes in 1888. Maynard sailed to the Pribilof Islands in the
Bering Sea to photograph the seal rookeries in 1892. Richard also made trips to
Alaska for photographic purposes in 1879, 1882, and 1887.
Many of Richard Maynard's photographs (prints) were collected
by the amateur ethnologist Dr. C.F. Newcombe, along with some of his personal
papers (diaries, notebooks, and the letters to Hannah written during his trip
to the Pribilof Islands in 1892). The negatives, along with those of his wife, were
donated or sold to the BC Archives by his son Albert. Albert also donated
the silver medal won by Richard in 1890.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: BVIPA (glass negatives and prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
" Photographed by R. Maynard, Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. " R.
Maynard, Photographic Artist, and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic
Materials, Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount. " R.
Maynard, Photographic Artist, and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic
Materials, Cor. Douglas and Johnson Sts., Victoria, B.C." on verso of print
mount. " R. Maynard, Photographic Artist and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic
Materials, 41 Pandora Street [sic], Victoria, B.C." on verso of print mount.
Negatives may be captioned and marked " Photographed by R. Maynard." Bottom
front of print mount may be marked " R. Maynard Artist" or " R. Maynard
Photographer."
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): BVIPA GR-1304, file 3007 (probate) BVIPA
MS-1077 (Newcombe Collection) directories (first listing for Richard and
Hannah in MAL68) newspapers provincial Voters Lists government (federal and provincial)
records photographs all at BVIPA Kerr (1890) Gosnell (1906) Howay &
Scholefield (1914):v. 4, 903-4 Wilks
(1980) Mattison (1985)
Mattison (1986a)
Mattison (1987a)
Mattison and Savard
(1992) Mattison (1997b).
Maynard, Mrs. Richard see
Maynard, Hannah Hatherly.
Mayo, Charles A. see Mayo &
Weed.
NAME: Mayo & Weed
WHERE ACTIVE: Chicago, IL BC Alaska.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 309 Sixty
Third St., Chicago/1891.
WORK INTERVAL: July 1891 (BC-Alaska).
STATUS:
Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Based in Chicago, this was a partnership of
Charles A. Mayo and J.E. Weed. The firm were " special artists" for Grafton's
Tours, also a Chicago company, and " this season accompanied one through
Alaska." J.E. Weed was the photographer who travelled to Alaska, with part of
the outbound or return trip taking him through the scenic route of the Canadian
Pacific Railway.
Mayo & Weed published a catalogue and album of this
trip. The catalogue described the views of this trip as either 5x8 inch and
8x10 inch. The firm also carried views of " Old Mexico" which were taken in the
winter months on another Grafton's Tours. The Mexico images are not described
in the catalogue.
The album reproduced on the CIHM microfiche contains 70
8x10 and 56 5x8 views for $30.00. The 8x10 views are first, following by the
5x8 views. A handwritten caption (or typeface simulating handwriting) appears
below the image. Each photographs contains a white number imprinted in the
lower left corner. There is no other identifying information on the
photographs.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS: number in lower left
corner of photograph.
REFERENCES:
Mayo & Weed (1891)
E-mail, " Report on the Mayo & Weed 'Catalogue of Views'" , Mattison to
PHOTOHST@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU, 1999.02.25.
NAME: Meara, J.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS:
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
World, 1900 05 04/8.
NAME: Medlock, E. S. or E. (Miss).
VARIANT: Wadds, Mrs. David.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 45 Cordova
St./1897-1898.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 322 Dunsmuir St./1897-1898.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1897-1898.
STATUS: Retoucher.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She
worked for the Wadds Bros. and
married David Wadds on March 26, 1898 in
Rossland.
REFERENCES: HEN97 WIL97 News-Advertiser, 1898 03 31/10.
NAME: Meed, William Ebenizer.
LIFE DATES: 1871? __ __-1959 05 12.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
Vancouver, BC.
WHERE ACTIVE: Yukon.
WORK INTERVAL: 1898-1907?.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: According to the University of Washington Libraries Web sites, Meed and his wife Mabel to Dawson City in 1898 where he worked for the Bennett Lake and Klondike Navigation Co. as the freight and passenger agent. He also later worked in the same capacity for the Canadian Development Co. By 1900 he owned and managed the Yukon Dock Company, and established his own riverboat firm, the Stewart River Co.
In addition to
being an amateur photographer, Meed also collected photographs by commercial photographers such as H. C. Barley, G.G. Cantwell, H. J. Goetzman, Eric Hegg, and Kinsey & Kinsey.
Meed moved to Victoria around 1907 and in the 1930s lived in Vancouver. He wrote a series of newspaper articles for the
Vancover Sun and Province in the 1940s about his Klondike experiences.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UWL (William E. Meed Collection no. 246).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVIPA Death Registration No. 1959-09-006133 (microfilm B13242 unverified) University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections, William E. Meed Photographs University of Washington Libraries, Guide to the William E. Meed Collection, ca. 1898-1953.
Melrose's Gallery see Milross, William Thomas.
Merrfield, George
see Merrifield, George.
NAME: Merrifield, George.
VARIANT: Merryfield, George Merrfield, George.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Commercial St./1893 64 Commercial St./1894-1895. HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 38 Milton St./1893 30 Milton St./1894-1895.
WORK INTERVAL:
1893-1895.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He
worked for J. Sampson's Diamond
City Photo Gallery. By 1897 he had turned to mining for black diamonds
(coal).
REFERENCES: WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 HEN97 WIL97.
NAME: Merrill, Joseph.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE: PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort St./1893-1895.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort
St./1894-1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked for J.
Savannah and probably lived in or over the studio.
REFERENCES: WIL93
WIL94 WIL95.
NAME: Merrill, Mable
(Miss).
VARIANT:
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF
DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 56 Fort
St./1897.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Third St./1897.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: She worked for
G. Preston.
REFERENCES: WIL97.
Merryfield, George see Merrifield, George.
NAME: Metcalf, Charles H.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Bennett, BC.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898.
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: AHL YWA (copy prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
NAME: Miles,
________.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Nome, AK.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
NAME: Millar,
George Edward.
VARIANT: Milliar, C. Miller, G. E.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Rossland Greenwood.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 26 ½ E. Columbia Ave. (Rossland)/1897-1899
Copper St. (Greenwood)/1899-1900.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1897-1900.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A partner in
Carpenter & Millar, he
moved to Greenwood in 1899 and established his own business.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN97 WIL97 HEN98 HEN99 WIL99
HEN00.
NAME: Miller, ---.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: San Francisco,
Calif. Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Government St., W. side near
View/1874 11-?.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1874 11-?.
STATUS: Retoucher.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Described as " an experienced
retoucher from the first San Francisco galleries," he worked for S.A. Spencer
in the Theatre Photographic
Gallery. He replaced R.A. Desmond
who had gone to work for Noah
Shakespeare.
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1874 11 07/3.
NAME: Miller, Rev.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1861.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: Rev. Ebenezer Robson (1836-1911) recorded in his diary on July _, 1861
that he helped this visiting Methodist [?] minister take photographs of the
town.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Bill Burrill,
who read it in the diary at BVIPA (Old MS R/D/R57), 1986 06 06.
Miller, G.E. see Millar, George Edward.
NAME: Miller, G.W.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nelson.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: ca.
1898.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface marked " G.W. Miller Photo." .
REFERENCES: BVIPA photos HP032627 and HP032632.
NAME: Miller, J.A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Victoria.
WORK
INTERVAL: 1861 04.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
He was the president of " The
World's Panorama Company" .
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Colonist, 1861 04 01/3 1861 04 04/1
Mattison (1984
01-03):47-8.
NAME: Miller, N.B.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Alert
Bay.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: ca. 1888-1889.
STATUS:
Amateur?
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A photograph in Scherer was credited to
this photographer.
COLLECTIONS: SI.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Scherer (1973).
NAME:
Miller, T.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1882.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He
advertised a copying services for photographs and tintypes.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Nanaimo Free Press, 1882 04
15/1.
NAME: Miller,
William G.A.
LIFE DATES: 1867 __ __-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
Ontario.
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE/WHEN ACTIVE: Dawson/1898-ca. 1905.
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS: Amateur?.
SUMMARY: Born in Ontario, his
family settled in California. After he married Lenora Huntley in Oakland, he
worked in San Francisco as a court reporter, then as a manager of the
Sacramento Hotel. Miller traveled to Dawson in 1898 with his brother Henry and
his brother-in-law Oni Lomax. In 1900 he went back to California for his wife.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Holt-Atherton Dept. of Special Collections,
University of the Pacific Libraries, MSS 80 (ca. 1000 photographs, 1867-ca.
1950 some are of the Miller family or were collected by them).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Morrison (1995) University of
the Pacific Libraries online catalogue (http://pacificat.lib.uop.edu).
Milliar, C. see Millar, George Edward.
Millross, W.T. see Milross, William Thomas.
NAME: Mills, Thomas.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: BC.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR: Bangor, North Wales.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: same as business
address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890-1891 1893.
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Mills toured Canada extensively in 1890-91 and 1893.
On his first trip he concentrated on scenery in Western Canada and on his
second trip on the landscapes and industries of the eastern half of the
country. He was attached in both instances to a British farmers delegation. On
the first trip he gathered over 1,000 negatives. On his second trip in 1893 he
was assisted by a man named Morde. A catalogue of these
views and those from the subsequent tour, as well as correspondence between
Mills and the Dominion Immigration Branch, can be found in Immigration Branch
records (OOA RG 76).
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA (album Visual Records accession
no. 198007-005)
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): OOA RG 76, v. 42, file
1049 (BVIPA microfilm B00749) World, 1890 11 19/4
News-Advertiser, 1890 11 22/8 1891 01 01/12 (supplement) 1892 11 26/8
1893 08 30/8 1893 09 17/1 1893 10 01/8.
NAME:
Milne, A.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver New Zealand [?].
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova
St. (Miller Block, room 15)/1893?.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1893?.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A photograph in the
City of Vancouver Archives has his address on the verso the photo shows a
float on Hastings St. E. with a sign in Japanese and English. The English sign
says " Sons of the British Empire God Save the Queen." A photo in Looking
Back, a photo history of New Zealand by Keith Sinclair, is captioned " A.
Milne" and dated 1903.
COLLECTIONS: BVAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " A.
Milne, Room 15 Miller Blk Cordova St., Vancouver, B.C." on verso of print.
REFERENCES: BVAA photo no. STREETS P. 316 Sinclair (1978):154.
NAME: Milross, William Thomas.
VARIANT:
Millross, W.T. Melrose's Gallery.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE
OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova
St., next door to McKendry's Boot Store/1886 05 24-06 13.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1886 05 24-06 13.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A partner in Milross &
Wren, he became a painter. He left for Ontario in 1891 and was described
upon his departure as " one of the first to take up residence in Vancouver."
REFERENCES/ADVERTISING
AND SOURCES (IMAGES): Vancouver Weekly Herald & North Pacific News, 1886
05 21/2 and 3 1886 06 18/2 Vancouver News, 1886 06 05/2 (ad:
" Melrose's [sic] Gallery) 1886 06 10/2 (ad: " Milross's Gallery" )
Columbian, 1886 06 19/3 World, 1891 01 26/1 WIL88 HEN89
Vancouver Voters List, 1886 (n.l.) Voters List, 1890.
NAME: Milross & Wren.
WHERE ACTIVE:
Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Cordova St., next door to McKendry's
Boot Store/1886 05 24-6 13.
WORK INTERVAL: 1886 05 24-06 13.
STATUS:
Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The partnership of W.T. Milross and J.
Wren. The studio, the first in Vancouver, inching out that of
J.A. Brock & Co. by a week or
less, was destroyed in the disastrous fire of June 13. Losses were $500 and the
company, unlike Brock & Co., did not remain in business. No photographs by
Milross & Wren are known to have survived.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: same as for W.T.
Milross.
NAME: Minto, Mary
Caroline, Lady.
VARIANT: Grey, Mary Caroline.
LIFE DATES: 1858 or
1859 __ __-1940 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: UK.
PLACE OF DEATH: UK.
WHERE
ACTIVE: BC.
WORK INTERVAL: 1900.
STATUS: Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: The daughter of General Charles Grey and sister of the 4th Earl of
Grey, she married the 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914) in 1883. While he was
Governor-General of Canada (1898-1904), they took the train to the Klondike so
he could personally examine the situation there. Harry Graham, aide-de-camp to
the Governor-General, reported in his journal Across Canada to the
Klondyke, that Her Excellency carried a Kodak camera. Several of her
photographs illustrate the published version of Graham's journal.
COLLECTIONS: NLS.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Debrett's (1897
& 1967) Graham (1984).
NAME: Mizony, I.T.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
NAME: Mizony, Paul T.
LIFE DATES:
1881? __ __-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Bennett, BC Yukon (likely Bonanza Creek area).
WORK INTERVAL:
1899-1901.
STATUS: Amateur.
SUMMARY: They lived at Bennett in 1899
and the father mined in the Yukon.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: YWA (MM
Collection).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface may be captioned in largish
block printing.
REFERENCES: Paul T. birthdate: YWA photo no. 3580 YWA
photo no. 3853 (GRAND FORKS).
Mizony, Paul T. see
Mizony, I.T.
Montagu, Alice Maud Olivia
see Stanley, Alice, Lady.
NAME: Moore, ---.
LIFE
DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Bella Bella.
WORK INTERVAL: 1885.
STATUS: Commercial?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Mentioned in the diary of Miss Agnes Knight:
A few minutes later Mr. Moore, who is a photographer, took the
photograph of the [school]house, we were collected on the verandah. We then
went in a canoe to the steamer [Glad Tidings] & were photographed
again as we stood on the deck [entry for August 7, 1885].
REFERENCES: BVIPA, Knight, Agnes, diary (microfilm reel 204A).
NAME: Moore, Thomas Henry.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE: UK?.
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: England Wales
Britanny U.S. Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 360 Tenth E. Ave./1895
08-1896 424 Tenth Ave. E./1896-1897.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: same as business
address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1895 08-1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He worked simultaneously in photography and real estate
and also maintained an office in the YMCA building, Hastings St. He ran the
Moore Printing Co. after leaving photography.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HOD96 HEN97 WIL97 World, 1895 08
06/8 1895 08 22/8 1895 09 25/4 1895 10 16/5 1896 02 27/2.
NAME: Morde, ---.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: BC.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR: Bangor, North Wales.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: same as business
address.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS: Commercial (assistant).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: This man worked for Thomas Mills
on his second tour of the Canadian North-West and British Columbia they also
operated as partners (Mills & Morde) in Bangor.
REFERENCES:
News-Advertiser, 1893 10 01/8.
Morgan, A.D. see
Worgan, Alfred Dashwood.
NAME: Morris, Curtis Dexter.
LIFE DATES: 1868? __ __-1950 10 before 26.
BIRTHPLACE: Nova Scotia.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: 59 Cordova St./1893.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 708 Cambie St./1892
59 Cordova St./1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Reported to have arrived in B.C. in 1889, he worked as a
bookkeeper for the Hastings Mill. The 1892 listing showed him as a clerk in
1892 but no business address was given. He was a listed as a photographer with
T.B. Straiton in 1893. He moved to
the Selkirk Mountains and ran general stores at Rogers Pass and other
locations, then moved to Quesnel. He retired in 1945.
REFERENCES: WIL92
WIL93 Sun, 1950 10 26 (obit. no date of death given).
NAME: Mortimer, George.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Rossland.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR: Lincoln St., near Second Ave./1897-1898.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1898.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN97
HEN98.
NAME: Mountain, Albert.
VARIANT: Mountain, J.W.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: Columbia St.,
near Church/1890 437 Columbia St./1891.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Farmers'
Home/1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1889?-1891.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A partner in Mountain &
Heckley and Uren &
Mountain, he was listed in error in 1891 as J.W. Mountain.
COLLECTIONS: see Mountain & Heckley and
Uren & Mountain.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Mountain & Heckley
and Uren & Mountain.
REFERENCES: HEN90 HEN91 Voters List, 1890.
Mountain, J.W.
see Mountain, Albert.
NAME: Mountain & Heckley.
WHERE
ACTIVE: New Westminster.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 437 Columbia St./1891.
WORK INTERVAL: 1891.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The
partnership of Albert Mountain and
J.W. Heckley.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: HEN91.
Muggeridge, James
Edward see Muybridge, Eadweard James.
NAME: Muirhead, Charles
H.
LIFE DATES: 1872 08 28-1957 04 26.
BIRTHPLACE: near Helenburgh,
Scotland.
PLACE OF DEATH: Portland, OR.
WHERE ACTIVE: Sidney
Bennett Atlin Whitehorse, Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: see under
Muirhead Bros.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK
INTERVAL: 1896-1906.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He
arrived in the USA in 1893 with his brother L.P.
Muirhead. A partner in the Muirhead Bros, he
won an amateur photo contest in January 1900. His address was given as Atlin,
BC. After the partnership in Atlin dissolved, C.H. settled in Wenatchee,
Washington.
COLLECTIONS: see Muirhead Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Muirhead Bros.
REFERENCES: HOD96 Letter, Yukon Archives to Mattison, 1982 03 26 Leslie's
Weekly, 1900 01 08/16 Wenatchee Daily World (WA), 1957 04 28/2
(C.H.M. obituary) 1936 C.H.M. correspondence via Michael Cirelli, Seattle, WA
US Census data via Michael Cirelli, Seattle, WA, 1995 12 11.
NAME: Muirhead, Lewis Potter, Jr.
LIFE
DATES: 1876 __ __-19__ __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Scotland.
PLACE OF DEATH:
probably England.
WHERE ACTIVE: Sidney Bennett Atlin Whitehorse,
Yukon Seattle, WA.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: see under
Muirhead Bros.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: Spruce
Junction (Bennett or Atlin)/1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1920.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He arrived in the USA in 1893 with his
brother C.H. Muirhead. In 1896 they formed a
partnership in Sidney, BC, as Muirhead Bros.
According to Jones (1976), L.P. worked as a commercial marine photographer
between around 1908 and 1920. At the time of the 14th US Census (1920), L.P.
was living in Seattle with his wife Margaret and 9-year old daughter Marion
born in Washington State. L.P. moved back to England from Seattle in 1926 and
was living in Biddenham, Bedford, in 1936. C.H. Muirhead's 1957 obituary
reported L.P. Muirhead as still living in England.
COLLECTIONS: see
Muirhead Bros.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see
Muirhead Bros.
REFERENCES: HOD96 (classified
only) Voters List, 1900 Jones (1976) Letter, Yukon Archives to Mattison,
1982 03 26.
NAME: Muirhead Bros.
WHERE ACTIVE: Sidney Bennett Atlin Whitehorse, Yukon.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1896-1906.
STATUS: Studio.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The partnership of C.H. and
L.P. Muirhead who moved to northern BC and operated
after the turn of the century in Atlin and Whitehorse. Examples of their
photography can be found in The Mining Record (1900).
COLLECTIONS:
AEUA AHL BATM BVIPA (Visual Records accession no. 198205-002, album) OTUAR.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface usually captioned, sometimes dated and
marked " Muirhead Bros." or " Muirhead" .
REFERENCES: HOD96 The Mining
Record (1900 05):161-70 Jones (1976) Letter, Yukon Archives to Mattison,
1982 03 26.
NAME: Murchie, Archibald.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: New
Westminster.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 1411 Sixth Ave./1893 Murchie Rd./1895.
WORK INTERVAL: 1890-1895.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS: BVAA BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: " A. Murchie
Photographer" stamped on verso of print (BVAA BOATS P. 121). " Archibald
Murchie, Photographer" stamped on verso of print mount (BVIPA photo no.
HP073022).
REFERENCES: WIL93 WIL95 WIL97 Voters List, 1890.
NAME: Muybridge, Eadweard James.
VARIANT: Muggeridge, James Edward.
LIFE DATES: 1830 04 09-1904 05 08.
BIRTHPLACE: Kingston-on-Thames, England, UK
PLACE OF DEATH:
Kingston-on-Thames, England, UK.
WHERE ACTIVE: Nanaimo Vancouver Island
Alaska.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR: 415 Montgomery St. (San Francisco,
CA)/1868.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR: San Francisco.
WORK INTERVAL: 1868
07-08.
STATUS: Institutional (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Muybridge
was an accomplished landscape photographer by the time he was appointed to
accompany General William Halleck to take views of military ports and harbours
of Alaska. Buckland reproduces a view captioned by the author " probably Warm
Spring Indian Camp, c 1873" which is in fact a Tlingit Indian group of Fort
Tongass, Alaska (see Pierce). Scharf contains a photograph captioned " Group of
Indians, Nanaimo District of Vancouver Island." Views from this trip were sold
as 8 x 10 in. prints and stereograph cards.
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA KMAG.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: print surface may be marked " Helios." Stereo mount bears
imprint on left side " Views of the Pacific Coast, Helios, Cosmopolitan Gallery
of Photographic Art, 415 Montgomery St. San Francisco" 1868 copyright notice
on right side caption on bottom left of mount e.g. " Alaska Ter.--Sitka."
REFERENCES: National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1926):v. 19
152 Buckland (1974):39 & 54 Naef (1975):173 Scharf (1976):151 Darrah
(1977):100 Pierce (1977):202-10.